BuddeComm Infrastructure Series

Table of Contents

1. NGN - KEY TO SUCCESS IN TELECOMS

• 1.1Overview and analysis
  • 1.1.1Introduction
  • 1.1.2Telcos and the nextgen revolution - analysis
  • 1.1.3Internet economy requires NGNs - now
  • 1.1.4Nextgen investment strategies
  • 1.1.5Broadband VoIP
  • 1.1.6Historic overview
  • 1.1.7Growth of IP-VPN (NGNs)
• 1.2NGN infrastructure developments
  • 1.2.1Next Generation Networks (NGN)
  • 1.2.2Infrastructure competition
  • 1.2.3Narrowband services
  • 1.2.4Mobile infrastruture
  • 1.2.5Broadband infrastructure

2. IP - CONVERGENCE AND APPLICATIONS

• 2.1NGNs: converging networks
  • 2.1.1Dedicated voice and dedicated data networks
  • 2.1.2Changes driven by IP
  • 2.1.3Multi Protocol Label Switching (MPLS)
  • 2.1.4Next Generation packet Networks (NGN)
  • 2.1.5IP objectives
  • 2.1.6Next Generation Network (NGN) standards
  • 2.1.7IMS forum
• 2.2IP=IT
  • 2.2.1From VoIP to triple play
  • 2.2.2From basic services to value added applications
• 2.3IP - enhanced services
• 2.4IP is making data market redundant
• 2.5IP is upsetting the telcos
• 2.6Technology and communication

3. THE FUTURE OF VOICE (FIXED, MOBILE, VOIP)

• 3.1Telephone companies - experts in negative marketing
  • 3.1.1Don' t use the phone
  • 3.1.2Don' t use the mobile phone
  • 3.1.3Don' t use the fixed phone
  • 3.1.4The IP solution
• 3.2The future of voice
  • 3.2.1Market under pressure
  • 3.2.2Rearguard skirmishes in the voice market
  • 3.2.3A neglected market
  • 3.2.4Fixed-line SMS
• 3.3The future of mobile
  • 3.3.1Voice still the killer app
  • 3.3.2But data is the future
  • 3.3.3Rebalancing of the industry
  • 3.3.4Devices-driven developments
  • 3.3.5Only option in developing countries
  • 3.3.6Multimodal services
• 3.4VOIP
• 3.5Pricing strategies
  • 3.5.1Telecoms price developments
  • 3.5.2From bundling to triple play
  • 3.5.3New ways to measure ARPUs
• 3.6Conclusion

4. VOIP

• 4.1Analysis
  • 4.1.1The continuing importance of voice
  • 4.1.2Give VOIP a chance
  • 4.1.3VOIP service quality
  • 4.1.4Industry issues
  • 4.1.5Don' t over regulate
  • 4.1.6VOIP needs to be underpinned by NGNS
  • 4.1.7Corporate markets
  • 4.1.8VOIP - a case of evolution, rather than revolution
  • 4.1.9Wireless VoIP
• 4.2Market overview
  • 4.2.1Historic overview
  • 4.2.2Key trends and developments
  • 4.2.3VoIP regional market overview
• 4.3Statistics and forecasts
  • 4.3.1IP market statistics and forecasts
  • 4.3.2VoIP and the business sector
  • 4.3.3VoIP and consumer awareness
  • 4.3.4IP Centrex to be popular with SME' s

5. OUTSOURCING

• 5.1Managed network services
• 5.2Outsourcing
  • 5.2.1Outsourcing, cosourcing, insourcing, tasksourcing
  • 5.2.2Outsourcing market statistics for 2006 and beyond
  • 5.2.3Outsourcing market statistics for 2005
  • 5.2.4Outsourcing market statistics for 2004
  • 5.2.5Historical overview
• 5.3IP Centrex or VOIP outsourcing - the battle for the SME market

6. TECHNOLOGY

• 6.1Limitations of IPv4
  • 6.1.1IPv4 - the current TCP/IP version
  • 6.1.2Address space
  • 6.1.3NAT - Network Address Translation
  • 6.1.4Addressing difficulties for Mobile Devices
  • 6.1.5Security
  • 6.1.6Quality of Service
• 6.2IPv6 and Next Generation Networks (NGN)
  • 6.2.1Introduction
  • 6.2.2IPv4 and IPv6
  • 6.2.3The Telcos' Next Generation Network
  • 6.2.4MPLS-based telco and corporate ' NextGen' networks
• 6.3Telephony and Voice over IP
  • 6.3.1VOIP
  • 6.3.2Internet telephony
  • 6.3.3VOIP on private networks
  • 6.3.4Comparing the Internet and the telephone network
• 6.4Streaming media and conferencing
  • 6.4.1Streaming video and audio
  • 6.4.2Unidirectional and bidirectional streaming
  • 6.4.3Video-on-demand and bandwidth restrictions
  • 6.4.4Open-standard streaming systems
  • 6.4.5Proprietary streaming systems
  • 6.4.6File download vs. server streaming
  • 6.4.7Commercial aspects of proprietary systems
• 6.5Video On Demand
  • 6.5.1VoD History and futures
  • 6.5.2VoD system functionality
  • 6.5.3Impact of VoD on media industries
  • 6.5.4VoD system requirements
  • 6.5.5QoS and specialised routers/switches
  • 6.5.6IP multicasting
  • 6.5.7Triple Play for differing access networks

7. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS

• Exhibit 1 - Nextgen telecoms
• Exhibit 2 - Global outsource market services
• Exhibit 3 - What is IMS?
• Exhibit 4 - ITU Definition of Next Generation Network
• Exhibit 5 - IP based enhanced services
• Exhibit 6 - Top ten technologies that will impact communication
• Exhibit 7 - Triple play pricing examples
• Exhibit 8 - Teen pop singer launches own VoIP service
• Exhibit 9 - VoIP issues
• Exhibit 10 - Regulator attitudes to VoIP
• Exhibit 11 - Comparative advantages of outsourcing and insourcing
• Exhibit 12 - Mobile outsourcing agreements - 2005
• Exhibit 13 - Contrasts between the telephone network and the Internet
• Exhibit 14 - Adoption of digital broadband technologies

• Table 1 - Global telecoms investments - 2005, 2010, 2015
• Table 2 - Terabit Router Leading Vendors - Market Share - August 2005
• Table 3 - Regional residential and SOHO VoIP subscribers - 2006; 2009
• Table 4 - Estimated growth of inbound VoIP traffic - Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe - 2005
• Table 5 - VoIP subscribers - Skype, Vonage, France Telecom, Time Warner
• Table 6 - VoIP access lines in US - 1999 - 2007
• Table 7 - Number of global outsourcing deals - first quarters - 2004 - 2006
• Table 8 - US jobs going offshore - 2003 - 2008; 2010; 2015

1. AMERICAS

• 1.1North America
  • 1.1.1USA
  • 1.1.2Canada
• 1.2Latin America
  • 1.2.1Introduction
  • 1.2.2Next Generation Networks (NGNs)
  • 1.2.3IP and Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP)
  • 1.2.4Country overview

2. EUROPE

• 2.1Western Europe
  • 2.1.1Next Generation Networks (NGNs)
  • 2.1.2IP
  • 2.1.3VoIP
• 2.2Eastern Europe
  • 2.2.1Central Eastern Europe and the Baltics
  • 2.2.2South East Europe
  • 2.2.3Russia and the Ukraine

3. AFRICA / MIDDLE EAST

• 3.1Africa
  • 3.1.1IP and Next Generation Networks in Africa
  • 3.1.2VoIP telephony in Africa
  • 3.1.3IP, NGN and VoIP developments in various African countries
• 3.2Middle East
  • 3.2.1Overview

4. ASIA

• 4.1Asia market overview
• 4.2Overview major Asian countries
  • 4.2.1Japan
  • 4.2.2South Korea
  • 4.2.3China
  • 4.2.4Singapore
  • 4.2.5Taiwan
  • 4.2.6India
  • 4.2.7Hong Kong
  • 4.2.8Malaysia

5. PACIFIC REGION

• 5.1Australia
  • 5.1.1The NGN and IP market
  • 5.1.2The VoIP market
• 5.2New Zealand
  • 5.2.1Next Generation Networks in New Zealand
  • 5.2.2VoIP market overview New Zealand
• 5.3South Pacific
  • 5.3.1Next Generation Networks and VoIP developments

6. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS

• Exhibit 1 - Components of network convergence
• Exhibit 2 - Regulatory status of VoIP in selected Latin American countries - 2006
• Exhibit 3 - Overview of key players

• Table 1 - VoIP subscribers - January 2006
• Table 2 - VoIP subscribers by operator - March 2005
• Table 3 - Total NGN (VAN/VPN) market revenues - 1991 - 2007

1. TELECOMS DEVELOPMENTS - STRATEGIC OVERVIEW

• 1.1A rapidly changing global telecoms market
  • 1.1.1Electronic consumption becomes an economic driver
  • 1.1.2Incumbents clash with their governments
  • 1.1.3Pro-active telcos can stay ahead of regulations
  • 1.1.4Governments will continue to lead telecoms policies
  • 1.1.5Lack of policies = lack of innovation
  • 1.1.6Facilities based competition is the way to go
  • 1.1.7Infrastructure duopolies look like the best option
  • 1.1.8Unbundling does lead to infrastructure roll out
  • 1.1.9Telcos that fail to change will go under
  • 1.1.10Developing world still a long way to go
  • 1.1.11Key trends and developments
• 1.2Infrastructure developments
  • 1.2.1Fibre-to-the-home (FttH) infrastructure
  • 1.2.2IP-based developments
• 1.3Rapidly changing voice market
  • 1.3.1Milking the voice market
  • 1.3.2Mobile merging with wireless
  • 1.3.3Fixed-Mobile Conversion (FMC)
  • 1.3.4Financial outlook for the telco industry
• 1.4Broadband market
  • 1.4.1Broadband: a technology concept
  • 1.4.2Wireless broadband
  • 1.4.3Broadband over Powerlines (BPL)
  • 1.4.4Developments will be non-linear
• 1.5Broadband-based video communications
  • 1.5.1Tele-presence
  • 1.5.2Tribes, clans and communities
  • 1.5.3Broadcasting over IP (BoIP)
  • 1.5.4IPTV
  • 1.5.5Hollywood coming to the party
  • 1.5.6The digital divide
• 1.6Broadcasting-based developments
  • 1.6.1Traditional broadcasting
  • 1.6.2Digital TV
  • 1.6.3Home media centres
  • 1.6.4DOCSIS 3.0
• 1.7Mobility markets
  • 1.7.1Mobile telecoms
  • 1.7.2Mobile Virtual Network Operators (MVNOs)
  • 1.7.3Wireless mobility
  • 1.7.4Companies rolling out 802.16e
  • 1.7.5HSDPA and IMS
  • 1.7.6Fixed-mobile convergence

2. TELECOMS PREDICTIONS - 2005 - 2015

• 2.1Paul Budde' s approach to forecasting
  • 2.1.1The use of scenarios
• 2.2Long-term Telecoms revenue trends - 2010 - 2015
  • 2.2.1By markets
  • 2.2.2By products
  • 2.2.3By industry
• 2.3Mobile
• 2.4Broadband
• 2.5Wireless VS fixed broadband
• 2.6Regulation - structural changes in the industry
• 2.7So where to go from here?

3. FORECASTING (QUALITATIVE) 2006

• 3.1The market in ten years time
• 3.2High-level developments
• 3.3Short-term developments
• 3.4Medium-term developments
  • 3.4.1Key trends
• 3.5Internet economy
  • 3.5.1One million companies already depend on the Internet economy
• 3.6Industry structures
  • 3.6.1Industry Restructuring
• 3.7Three distinct segments
  • 3.7.1Infrastructure
  • 3.7.2Content
  • 3.7.3Appliances
  • 3.7.4Get a 360 degree vision
  • 3.7.5Separation and integration
  • 3.7.6The roles of the players
  • 3.7.7Internet companies might take over the telcos
  • 3.7.8Media restructuring
  • 3.7.9Next generation network
  • 3.7.10To VoIP or not to VoIP?
• 3.8New business models
  • 3.8.1After broadband, triple play will be the next battleground
  • 3.8.2VoIP the key in triple play
  • 3.8.3Wholesale opportunities
  • 3.8.4Telcos learning at great cost
• 3.9My prediction: a golden future ahead of us
• 3.10China will dominate the industry within 5 years

4. THE FUTURE OF VOICE (FIXED, MOBILE, VOIP)

• 4.1Telephone companies - experts in negative marketing
• 4.1.1Don' t use the phone
  • 4.1.2Don' t use the mobile phone
  • 4.1.3Don' t use the fixed phone
  • 4.1.4The IP solution
• 4.2The future of voice
  • 4.2.1Market under pressure
  • 4.2.2Rearguard skirmishes in the voice market
  • 4.2.3A neglected market
  • 4.2.4Developments
  • 4.2.5Fixed-line SMS
  • 4.2.6Click-to-Talk
• 4.3The future of mobile
  • 4.3.1Voice still the killer app
  • 4.3.2But data is the future
  • 4.3.3Rebalancing of the industry
  • 4.3.4Devices-driven developments
  • 4.3.5Only option in developing countries
  • 4.3.6Multimodal services
• 4.4VOIP
• 4.5Analysis of vendor merge - the future is IT, not telco
• 4.6Pricing strategies
  • 4.6.1Telecoms price developments
  • 4.6.2From bundling to triple play
  • 4.6.3New ways to measure ARPUs
• 4.7Conclusion

5. NGN

• 5.1Introduction
  • 5.1.1Developing from VPNs
  • 5.1.2Advantages and disadvantages
  • 5.1.3Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
  • 5.1.4Advantages of NGNs over leased lines
  • 5.1.5Advantages of NGNs over traditional remote access
  • 5.1.6Types of NGN
  • 5.1.7NGN solutions
• 5.2Telcos and the nextgen revolution - analysis
  • 5.2.1Changing telecoms into IT
  • 5.2.2Nextgen Telcos
  • 5.2.3Traditional telcos
  • 5.2.4Ignoring next-gen structures
  • 5.2.5Choice: protecting the old or embracing the new
  • 5.2.6Battle between vested interests and nextgen developments
  • 5.2.7BT - an NGN leader
• 5.3NGN in action
  • 5.3.1Drivers of NGNs
  • 5.3.2Key application is telepresence
  • 5.3.3The shaky position of 3G
  • 5.3.4New business models are emerging
  • 5.3.5Voice remains a killer ap
  • 5.3.6From vertical to horizontal industry structures
• 5.4Internet economy requires NGNs - now
  • 5.4.1Lacklustre beginning by telcos
  • 5.4.2Businesses start looking at alternatives
  • 5.4.3NGN requirements
• 5.5Nextgen investment strategies
  • 5.5.1Long term investment required
  • 5.5.2Competition - not NGNs - is driving prices down
  • 5.5.3Global telecommunications capital expenditure
  • 5.5.4Regional telecommunications capital expenditure
  • 5.5.5Are there any broadband write-offs?
  • 5.5.6Lose-lose-lose strategy
  • 5.5.7Who is paying for the decrease in values?
• 5.6Broadband VOIP
• 5.7Growth of IP-VPN (NGNs)

6. VOIP

• 6.1Statistics and forecasts
  • 6.1.1IP market statistics and forecasts
  • 6.1.2VoIP and the business sector
  • 6.1.3VoIP and consumer awareness
  • 6.1.4IP Centrex to be popular with SME' s
• 6.2Analysis
  • 6.2.1The continuing importance of voice
  • 6.2.2Give VoIP a chance
  • 6.2.3VoIP service quality
  • 6.2.4VoIP over hyped
  • 6.2.5Industry issues
  • 6.2.6Tips for successful video over IP
  • 6.2.7Don' t over regulate
  • 6.2.8VOIP needs to be underpinned by NGNS
  • 6.2.9Corporate markets
  • 6.2.10VoIP- a case of evolution, rather than revolution
  • 6.2.11Wireless VoIP

7. THE FTTH MARKET IN 2006

• 7.1FttH analysis - mid 2006
  • 7.1.1DSL is building the business case for FttH
  • 7.1.2Growth patterns and predictions
  • 7.1.3No business case for large-scale deployments
  • 7.1.4Business drivers
  • 7.1.5No e-government without fibre
  • 7.1.6Fibre-to-the-Node and VDSL
• 7.2Where is the action in FttH?
  • 7.2.1Who are the leaders and why?
  • 7.2.2Initial drivers: utilities and local councils
  • 7.2.3Business market
  • 7.2.4Infrastructure upgrades
  • 7.2.5Corporate optical fibre
  • 7.2.6New housing developments
• 7.3Different FttH business models
  • 7.3.1National economy drivers
  • 7.3.2Social drivers
  • 7.3.3Entertainment drivers
  • 7.3.4' Go with the flow' strategies
  • 7.3.5New housing developments
• 7.4Telcos still reluctant
  • 7.4.1Business opportunities for FttH niche telcos
  • 7.4.2Alternative infrastructure developments
• 7.5Structural separation a must for FTTH
• 7.6The costs of FttH
  • 7.6.1AT&T project estimates

8. 3G

• 8.1Sorting out the Telstra NEX G confusion
• 8.2The future of 3G
• 8.3The time for 3G has arrived, but no cheering from the operators
  • 8.3.1Where is the business case?
  • 8.3.2Network costs will be driving 3G?
  • 8.3.3New business scenarios
  • 8.3.4Competition from disruptive technologies
• 8.4The hard realities of the mobile market
  • 8.4.1The networks simply would not be able to cope
  • 8.4.2As usual, over-promising and under-delivering
• 8.5Slow start so far
• 8.6Will 3G survive as a separate business model?
  • 8.6.13G cannibalising 2G
  • 8.6.22G is fighting back
  • 8.6.3Data moving to wireless broadband
  • 8.6.43G for voice and enhanced voice applications
  • 8.6.5Mobile operators absorbed by voice competition
  • 8.6.6Mobile, wireless convergence
  • 8.6.7Fixed operators have the upper hand
• 8.7From 3G to 4G mobile
  • 8.7.1Service evolution
  • 8.7.2How to move forward?
  • 8.7.3What went wrong with mobile data?
  • 8.7.4Demand is there, supply is failing
  • 8.7.5Super 3G versus WiMAX
  • 8.7.63G Long-Term Evolution (LTE)
• 8.84G will be the end result
• 9.MOBILE CONTENT - INDUSTRY AND MARKET ANALYSES
• 9.1A market still kept hostage - analysis 2006
  • 9.1.1Not much progress in almost a decade
  • 9.1.2Still no open networks
  • 9.1.3Untapped potential
  • 9.1.4We are a telecoms industry
  • 9.1.53G is still a voice-driven development
  • 9.1.6What do you mean - customer service?
  • 9.1.7All we need is competition
• 9.2New marketing and distribution models
  • 9.2.1Content providers giving up hope
  • 9.2.2Manufacturers supporting bypass solutions
  • 9.2.3The race for content
  • 9.2.4Branding with partners
  • 9.2.5The future: value-chain-based scenarios
  • 9.2.6IPX takes on the walled mobile gardens
• 9.3Digital Rights Management (DRM)
  • 9.3.1The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)

10. WIMAX

• 10.1Fixed wireless analyses - 2006
  • 10.1.1The promises of fixed wireless
  • 10.1.2The problems of fixed wireless
  • 10.1.3Opportunities of fixed wireless
  • 10.1.4Fixed wireless broadband developments - Mid 2006
  • 10.1.5Repositioning
  • 10.1.6Spectrum developments
  • 10.1.7WiMAX and BPL - commercial viability?
• 10.2Mobility analyses - Moving into 2007
  • 10.2.1Personal wireless broadband
  • 10.2.2WiMAX is losing the battle
  • 10.2.3The new and the old WiMAX
  • 10.2.4From 3G to 4G mobile
  • 10.2.5Super 3G versus WiMAX
  • 10.2.6Long-term evolution path to 4G

11. BROADCASTING - INTERACTIVE TV - OVERVIEW AND ANALYSIS

• 11.1Introduction
  • 11.1.1Definitions
  • 11.1.2Interactive TV to generate billions
  • 11.1.3First interactions with TV
  • 11.1.4Personal TV (choose and control)
  • 11.1.5Broadband or IPTV
• 11.2Market analysis 2006
  • 11.2.1iTV - 35 years on
  • 11.2.2Snail pace progress
  • 11.2.3Digital TV (DTV) 2nd Internet platform
  • 11.2.4Shock to the ' couch potato' syndrome
  • 11.2.5Innovation required
• 11.3i-Advertising - analysis
  • 11.3.1Individually addressed advertisements
  • 11.3.2And again...permission-based models
  • 11.3.3Revenue opportunities
• 11.4Statistics and forecasts
  • 11.4.1Forecasts beyond 2006
  • 11.4.2Reports for USA from 2005
• 11.5Business modelling
  • 11.5.1Real-time or non-real-time
  • 11.5.2Permission-based through SMS
  • 11.5.3Subscription or itinerary?
  • 11.5.4Technology issues

12. TRANSITIONS TO A DIGITAL INDUSTRY

• 12.1Introduction
• 12.2The most important telecoms transition issues appearing from our models and scenarios
  • 12.2.1Horizontal value chains
  • 12.2.2The value chains are no longer in one direction: from supplier to consumer
  • 12.2.3Bandwidth demand will continue to go up
  • 12.2.4' Services' are not a separate layer but are part of every layer
  • 12.2.5Because of more intelligence in devices the ' place' of services is shifting
  • 12.2.6Another big sudden jump-transition, in fact two at the same time is to G4 mobile &FttH
• 12.3New kinds of innovations
• 12.4What may be next after WMesh+fiberMAN
• 12.5Postsciptum
• 12.6References

13. DIGITAL MEDIA - ANALYSES, ISSUES, DEVELOPMENTS

• 13.1The rise and rise of the Internet economy
• 13.2The future is digital people, not digital media
• 13.3The Internet
  • 13.3.1The killer app
  • 13.3.2High-speed, always-on Internet
• 13.4It' s worthwhile fighting for open networks
  • 13.4.1Structural changes to the industry are overdue
  • 13.4.2The farce of infrastructure-based competition
  • 13.4.3We should stand firm on open networks
  • 13.4.4The telcos failed for 30 years - Internet succeeded in 10
  • 13.4.5Open networks engine for innovation and growth
  • 13.4.6Large economic benefits
  • 13.4.7BT leading the way
  • 13.4.8Safe harbours undermine the Internet economy
  • 13.4.9Bill of Internet Rights
  • 13.4.10Telcos hampering growth of Internet economy
  • 13.4.11IP is upsetting the telcos
  • 13.4.12Dutch cable operators obliged to open networks
  • 13.4.13Global cities declare open networks
  • 13.4.14INEC Declaration on Open Networks
• 13.5Digital content
  • 13.5.1Introduction
  • 13.5.2Watch out for the Internet media companies
  • 13.5.3Internet media companies - vs- telcos
• 13.6Other interesting developments
  • 13.6.1Skype SMS
  • 13.6.2Videoconferencing in telepresence
  • 13.6.3Bittorrent in digital media devices
• 13.7The disruptive effects of digital media

14. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS

• Exhibit 1 - Key revenue trends - period to 2015
• Exhibit 2 - A changing industry structure - 2005 - 2010
• Exhibit 3 - Massive restructuring is now overdue
• Exhibit 4 - New public network concept
• Exhibit 5 - Triple play pricing examples
• Exhibit 6 - Triple play pricing examples
• Exhibit 7 - Nextgen telecoms
• Exhibit 8 - Verizon vs Skype
• Exhibit 9 - The role of voice
• Exhibit 10 - Global outsource market services
• Exhibit 11 - BuddeComm VoIP quality survey
• Exhibit 12 - Teen pop singer launches own VoIP service
• Exhibit 13 - Residential Broadband (BB) - growth predictions - next ten years
• Exhibit 14 - FttH costings per home connected
• Exhibit 15 - Mobile facts and figures
• Exhibit 16 - What users want
• Exhibit 17 - Tillevision Model for ICT infrastructure
• Exhibit 18 - Tillevision Model
• Exhibit 19 - Conjecture Subsidiarty
• Exhibit 20 - Fractal repetition of the Internet paradigm
• Exhibit 21 - Rural Tellet mobile voice-mail devices
• Exhibit 22 - Some application bit rates
• Exhibit 23 - Drivers of high-speed Internet

• Table 1 - Predicted global m-commerce revenues - 2003 - 2005; 2009 - 2010
• Table 2 - Telecommunications services revenue share by market - 2005; 2010; 2015
• Table 3 - Telecommunications services revenue share by product - 2005; 2010; 2015
• Table 4 - Telecommunications services revenue share by industry group - 2005; 2010; 2015
• Table 5 - Mobile data revenue as % of total mobile revenue forecast - 2005 - 2015
• Table 6 - Mobile penetration in developed and developing markets - 2005 - 2015
• Table 7 - Forecasting costs broadband over a 10-year period
• Table 8 - Residential Broadband (BB) - growth predictions - next ten years
• Table 9 - Wireless as % of fixed broadband forecast - 2005; 2010; 2015
• Table 10 - Global telecoms investments - 2005; 2010; 2015
• Table 11 - Capital expenditure by region - 2005, 2006
• Table 12 - Regional residential and SOHO VoIP subscribers - 2006; 2009
• Table 13 - Estimated growth of inbound VoIP traffic - Africa, Latin America, Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Eastern Europe - 2005
• Table 14 - VoIP subscribers - Skype, Vonage, France Telecom, Time Warner
• Table 15 - VoIP access lines in US - 1999 - 2007
• Table 16 - Global wireless broadband market subscribers - 2003 - 2008
• Table 17 - Wireless broadband market share by region - 2005
• Table 18 - Global wireless broadband subscribers by technology - 2011
• Table 19 - DSL, 1Gb/s, DWDM transmission speeds - what does it mean?

1. INFRASTRUCTURE - KEY CONCEPTS

• 1.1Communication, signals and data
  • 1.1.1Light and sound
  • 1.1.2Analogue electronics
  • 1.1.3Digital conversion
  • 1.1.4Binary numbers
  • 1.1.5ASCII text
  • 1.1.6Data storage and compression
• 1.2The pace of electronic technology development
• 1.3Types of communication system
  • 1.3.1Basic communication principles
  • 1.3.2Basic characteristics of communication technologies
  • 1.3.3Analogue and digital
  • 1.3.4Analogue vs digital
• 1.4The OSI layered model of networks and applications
  • 1.4.1Distributed information system
  • 1.4.2Purpose of OSI
  • 1.4.3Functions and examples
  • 1.4.4How the model works
• 1.5The increasing importance of the Internet
  • 1.5.1From smoke signals to Internet
  • 1.5.2New foundation for future systems
  • 1.5.3The importance of the Internet

2. LAST MILE TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES

• 2.1Twisted Pair, POTS, ISDN
  • 2.1.1Introduction and historical perspective
  • 2.1.2Twisted pair copper for analogue telephony
  • 2.1.3Twisted pair copper for ISDN
• 2.2Fibre - FTTP, Passive Optical Networks
  • 2.2.1Introduction
  • 2.2.2Customer needs
  • 2.2.3Needs of telecommunications carriers
  • 2.2.4Standards organisations and industry bodies
  • 2.2.5Architectural considerations
• 2.3Fibre - Metro Ethernet, GPON
  • 2.3.1' Carrier grade' reliability and management
  • 2.3.2Alternative fibre strategies
  • 2.3.3Metro Ethernet services
  • 2.3.4ITU G.983 APON/BPON
  • 2.3.5ITU G.984 GPON
  • 2.3.6ITU G.985 Point-to-point
  • 2.3.7802.3ah Point-to-Point
  • 2.3.8802.3ah EPON
• 2.4ADSL principles
  • 2.4.1Common characteristics of XDSL
  • 2.4.2Frequency allocations
  • 2.4.3ADSL modems and DSLAMs
  • 2.4.4Obstacles to deployment
  • 2.4.5Modulation schemes
• 2.5ADSL & ADSL2 technical standards
  • 2.5.1ADSL technical standards
  • 2.5.2Data rates and distances
  • 2.5.3Comparing ADSL and HFC
• 2.6Symmetrical SHDSL, VoDSL
  • 2.6.1Symmetrical DSL
  • 2.6.2T1 and E1
  • 2.6.3BR-ISDN and IDSL
  • 2.6.4HDSL
  • 2.6.5SDSL
  • 2.6.6SHDSL G.991.2
  • 2.6.7Voice over broadband (VoBB)
  • 2.6.8Latency and delay
  • 2.6.9VODSL - Voice over DSL
  • 2.6.10CVODSL - Channelised Voice over DSL
• 2.7FTTC, VDSL Principles
  • 2.7.1Introduction
  • 2.7.2Single and multi-carrier modulation techniques
  • 2.7.3DMT - OFDM
  • 2.7.4Early, non-ITU, standards
• 2.8FTTC, VDSL2 technical standards
  • 2.8.1Frequency plans
  • 2.8.2ITU G.993.2 VDSL2
  • 2.8.3Ethernet rather than ATM for DSL
  • 2.8.4Competition implications
  • 2.8.5ADSL2+ / VDSL Futures
• 2.9HFC - principles, DOCSIS 1.x & 2.0
  • 2.9.1Introduction
  • 2.9.2HFC' s stringent design and maintenance requirements
  • 2.9.3DOCSIS 1.x and 2.0
• 2.10HFC - DOCSIS 3.0, Switched Digital Video
  • 2.10.1DOCSIS-related standards
  • 2.10.2Node splitting and frequency re-alignment
  • 2.10.3High frequency expansion
  • 2.10.4DOCSIS 3.0
  • 2.10.5Switched Digital Video
  • 2.10.6HFC future prospects
• 2.11Free Space Optical
  • 2.11.1Free Space Optical communications

3. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS

• Exhibit 1 - OSI layered model: a web-browsing example
• Exhibit 2 - Comparison of ADSL/VDSL and HFC systems
• Exhibit 3 - Access node deployment scenarios

• Table 1 - Properties of major DSL versions - 2006
• Table 2 - HDSL reach (km) versus wire gauge
• Table 3 - ITU VDSL band-plans
• Table 4 - G.993.2 VDSL2 profiles

1. INFRASTRUCTURE - KEY CONCEPTS

• 1.1Communication, signals and data
  • 1.1.1Light and sound
  • 1.1.2Analogue electronics
  • 1.1.3Digital conversion
  • 1.1.4Binary numbers
  • 1.1.5ASCII text
  • 1.1.6Data storage and compression
• 1.2The pace of electronic technology development
• 1.3Types of communication system
  • 1.3.1Basic communication principles
  • 1.3.2Basic characteristics of communication technologies
  • 1.3.3Analogue and digital
  • 1.3.4Analogue vs digital
• 1.4The OSI layered model of networks and applications
  • 1.4.1Distributed information system
  • 1.4.2Purpose of OSI
  • 1.4.3Functions and examples
  • 1.4.4How the model works
• 1.5The increasing importance of the Internet
  • 1.5.1From smoke signals to Internet
  • 1.5.2New foundation for future systems
  • 1.5.3The importance of the Internet

2. LONG DISTANCE AND GLOBAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES

• 2.1Fibre, WDM
  • 2.1.1Historical perspective
  • 2.1.2Optical fibre links
  • 2.1.3Fibres, attenuation, dispersion and distortion
• 2.2Fibre, modulation, amplification and 40Gbs
  • 2.2.1Soliton transmission
  • 2.2.2Lasers, modulation and detectors
  • 2.2.340Gb/s
• 2.3SDH, SONET, OTN, RPR, GMPLS
  • 2.3.1SDH / SONET fibre optic links
  • 2.3.2SDH/SONET data rates
  • 2.3.3Enhancements to SDH / SONET
  • 2.3.4RPR - Resilient Packet Ring
  • 2.3.5Optical switching and GMPLS
  • 2.3.6Optical Transport Network (OTN)
• 2.4Microwave, satellite
  • 2.4.1Microwave links
  • 2.4.2Microwave Bands
  • 2.4.3Satellite Orbital Configurations
  • 2.4.4Highly Elliptical Orbit (HEO)

3. THE TELEPHONE NETWORK AND VOICE CALLS

• 3.1Network and calls
  • 3.1.1Introduction and historical perspective
  • 3.1.2A circuit-switched network
  • 3.1.3Voice calls
  • 3.1.4Telephone exchanges
• 3.2SS7 PABXs Centrex CTI Number Portability
  • 3.2.1Signalling System No. 7 - SS7
  • 3.2.2The Intelligent Network
  • 3.2.3CLASS services
  • 3.2.4PABXs and key systems
  • 3.2.5Payphones
  • 3.2.6Centrex Services
  • 3.2.7CTI - Computer Telephony Integration
  • 3.2.8Number portability

4. DATA

• 4.1Introduction
  • 4.1.1Circuit versus packet switching
  • 4.1.2Cells, frames and packets
  • 4.1.3ISDN primarily for voice, not data
  • 4.1.4Technologies for data communications
  • 4.1.5Voice to be carried as packets in the future
• 4.2Frame relay
  • 4.2.1Introduction
  • 4.2.2Switching packets and cells
  • 4.2.3Permanent and Switched Virtual Circuits - PVCs and SVCs
  • 4.2.4Applications and futures
• 4.3ATM
  • 4.3.1Introduction
  • 4.3.2Cell switching in hardware
  • 4.3.3Distinguishing characteristics of ATM
  • 4.3.4Applications and futures
  • 4.3.5ATM for LAN
  • 4.3.6Conclusion
• 4.4Networks within buildings
  • 4.4.1Introduction
  • 4.4.2Ethernet and IEEE 802.3
  • 4.4.3Hubs, repeaters and bridges
  • 4.4.4Switches
  • 4.4.5Token Ring
  • 4.4.6FDDI - Fibre-Distributed Data Interface
  • 4.4.7Fibre Channel
  • 4.4.8InfiniBand
  • 4.4.9ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode
  • 4.4.10Wireless LANS
• 4.5QoS, MPLS and VPLS
  • 4.5.1Introduction and Terminology
  • 4.5.2DiffServ
  • 4.5.3MPLS
  • 4.5.4The MPLS Label
  • 4.5.5Edge and core devices
  • 4.5.6QoS characteristics
  • 4.5.7Virtual Circuits and virtual LANs
  • 4.5.8Draft-Martini and beyond

5. GLOSSARY OF ABBREVIATIONS

• Exhibit 1 - OSI layered model: a web-browsing example
• Exhibit 2 - Long distance fibre communication wavelength bands
• Exhibit 3 - Microwave band terminology
• Exhibit 4 - CLASS Services

• Table 1 - SDH and SONET Data Rates
• Table 2 - Virtual Concatenation Base Container Approximate Bandwidths